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- NAIA_lacrosse abstract "There are numerous men's and women's college lacrosse teams at schools that are members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), which is an alternate athletic organization for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The vast majority of these lacrosse programs participate either in the Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association (MCLA) for men or the Women's Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) for women.Both the MCLA and WCLA were specifically founded to organize lacrosse clubs that lacked varsity teams that officially represent the college or university and that generally receive direct school funding. However, because the NAIA does not currently organize the sport of lacrosse for its member institutions, many of their schools have begun organizing new varsity lacrosse teams through the MCLA or WCLA instead, where the school administers the program through their athletic department. Typically, these varsity programs, like their NCAA counterparts, provide athletic scholarships to some of their players, often after a public ceremony that includes an official "letter of intent" signing by the new recruit and official publicity from the school about the event. Further, the official school athletic department usually hires and fires the coaching staff and provides uniforms, equipment and covers travel expenses, among other things. They also generally pay the MCLA or WCLA dues for the team as an expense of the athletic department.This has become somewhat controversial within both the MCLA and WCLA, because these varsity teams seem to have unfair advantages over student-run and financed club teams. Generally, it's obvious when an NAIA team is "varsity" or college or university-run, because it appears on the official athletics website for the school alongside other varsity programs for basketball or track & field, for example. Club teams typically are not included at all on official school athletics websites or are clearly labeled as "club" teams, often for liability purposes. See the references below for documentation of this phenomenon.The organization of lacrosse as an official sport within the NAIA has begun—the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) announced on January 27, 2012, that it is making history by adding lacrosse for both men and women as conference sports effective the fall of 2012. The WHAC is the first conference in the NAIA to offer lacrosse as a conference championship sport. An earlier step in this direction was the establishment in September 2010 of the National Women's Lacrosse League, which is a lacrosse-only women's NAIA conference.".
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- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Adrian,_Michigan.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Appalachian_Athletic_Conference.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Aquinas_College_(Michigan).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Asbury_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Ashland,_Oregon.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Atchison,_Kansas.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Athens,_Tennessee.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Athletic_scholarship.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Ave_Maria,_Florida.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Ave_Maria_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Belleville,_Illinois.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Benedictine_College.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Biola_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Caldwell,_Idaho.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Category:College_lacrosse_in_the_United_States.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Category:College_lacrosse_leagues_in_the_United_States.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Category:National_Association_of_Intercollegiate_Athletics.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Chicago.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Clarke_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Cleveland,_Georgia.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink College_lacrosse.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink College_of_Idaho.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Columbia,_South_Carolina.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Columbia_College_(South_Carolina).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Columbia_Fighting_Koalas.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Concordia_University_(California).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Davenport_Panthers.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Davenport_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Dearborn,_Michigan.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Denver.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Denver,_Colorado.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Detroit.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Dordt_College.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Dubuque,_Iowa.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Elgin,_Illinois.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Wayne,_Indiana.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Fremont,_Nebraska.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Frontier_Conference.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Georgetown,_Kentucky.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Georgetown_College.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Grand_Rapids,_Michigan.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Great_Falls,_Montana.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Great_Lakes_Lacrosse_League.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Holy_Cross_College_(Indiana).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Indiana_Institute_of_Technology.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Irvine,_California.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Johnson_&_Wales_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Judson_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Kansas_Collegiate_Athletic_Conference.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink La_Mirada,_California.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Laurinburg,_North_Carolina.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Lawrence_Technological_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Leavenworth,_Kansas.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Letter_of_intent.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Lindenwood_University_–_Belleville.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink List_of_NAIA_football_programs.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink List_of_NAIA_institutions.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Lourdes_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Marshall,_Missouri.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Marygrove_College.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Marymount_California_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Mens_Collegiate_Lacrosse_Association.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Merced,_California.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Midland_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Missouri_Baptist_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Missouri_Valley_College.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Montreat,_North_Carolina.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Montreat_College.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink National_Association_of_Intercollegiate_Athletics.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink National_Womens_Lacrosse_League.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Northwestern_College_(Iowa).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Notre_Dame,_Indiana.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Oklahoma_Baptist_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Orange_City,_Iowa.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Ottawa,_Kansas.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Ottawa_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Pikeville,_Kentucky.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Point_Skyhawks.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Point_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Rancho_Palos_Verdes,_California.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Reinhardt_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Morris_University_(Illinois).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Robert_Morris_University_Illinois.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Rocklin,_California.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Salt_Lake_City.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Savannah,_Georgia.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Savannah_College_of_Art_and_Design.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Shawnee,_Oklahoma.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Siena_Heights_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Sioux_Center,_Iowa.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Southern_Oregon_University.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink Southfield,_Michigan.
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink St._Andrews_University_(North_Carolina).
- NAIA_lacrosse wikiPageWikiLink St._Gregorys_University.